ARTSEMESTR winter 2020 - invitation to the exhibition

Vernissage: Wednesday, January 29, 2020, from 7 PM 

Date of the event: January 30 – February 3, 2020

Location: Entire UMPRUM building, nám. Jana Palacha 80, Prague 1

Open: daily 10 AM – 6 PM
 

Free entry

Only a few times a year, the gates of the Fine Arts School in Prague open to the public. The most anticipated and most visited event is typically ARTSEMESTR, a showcase of examination and semester works of UMPRUM students. This year it will take place from January 30 to February 3 and will showcase the work of more than 500 young authors from 24 studios.
Artsemestr is not a curator-led exhibition. It is a presentation of what students tackled in their last semester and a testament to how their approach to creation evolves during their studies. Visitors can look forward to an inexhaustible variety of works from various artistic fields on a range of topics.
“The assignments lead our students to a deeper study and understanding of various issues. They learn to collaborate and communicate with clients, companies, specialized workshops, and not least with colleagues from various fields with whom they cooperate. We specifically guide students to navigate the requirements that real practice entails. This approach also helps them establish important contacts and skills to lead a creative dialogue with the client,” says Rector Prof. Jindřich Vybíral regarding the collaboration that has become one of the school's priorities.
Such projects were addressed by Studio of Architecture III, which dealt with Innovation Space – Brotfabrik Wien, the Furniture and Interior Design Studio designed restaurant spaces in OC Palladium, the Product Design Studio collaborated with Nachtmann glassworks, and the K.O.V. Studio participated in a competition to design an award for the Confederation of Industry and Transport. Among upcoming projects awaiting realization, we can mention a brick gazebo for the company Brispol and the entrance structure to the new vineyard of St. Michael in Kadaň on spoil heaps handled by the Studio of Architecture I.
The collaboration between the Clothing and Footwear Design Studio and the Graphic Design and Visual Communication Studio, working with NOVIA FASHION on clothing collections made from graphically processed knitted fabrics, is also worth noting. The result of their months of work will be presented at the Milan Design Week and other exhibitions.
The seminar Team Project, built on collaboration, also prepared a performance for the opening of Artsemestr in the school courtyard at two minutes to twelve. Students from all departments, including Theory and History of Art, participated in it. The theme is the politics of the climate crisis: the symbolic Doomsday Clock indicates how close the world is to global disaster, having been moved two minutes to midnight two years ago. Following the opening at UMPRUM, there will be an Artsemestr Afterparty at the FUTURUM club starting at 10 PM.

Studios and themes:
Studio of Architecture I – Brick - exploration of material limits – output design of a brick building; brick gazebo for the company Brispol/ entrance structure for the new vineyard of St. Michael in Kadaň on spoil heaps
Studio of Architecture II – Humpolec (in what form and whether at all the Humpolec civilization will survive) Real considerations about the development of the city over time

Studio of Architecture III – Innovation space - Brotfabrik Wien - design of spaces for innovation in Vienna’s startup space Ankerbrotfabrik

Studio of Architecture IV – Universal architecture - prototype housing for the 21st century
Studio of Industrial Design – 1st year styling of a natural object 2+4 years collaboration on the hybrid theme. 3rd year free topic. 5th year cooperation with application sphere // examination: 1st year product inspired by a natural object from the semester. 2nd-5th years scissors and iron, as a design piece
Studio of Furniture and Interior Design – 1st year BOX and a product that must fit inside in the unfolded state, 2nd year in collaboration with the Studio of Typeface Creation and Typography BISTRO POP-UP / Stand / - transportable stand for selling food of your choice, 5th year FOODCOURT / restaurant for the Palladium shopping center // examination: 2nd BISTRO POP-UP / Stand - realization 1:1, other years - dining set with realization　
Studio of Product Design – 1st year – study of a natural object; remaining years pressed glass for Nachtmann glassworks
Studio of Sculpture – free topic
Studio of Painting – free topic

Studio of Intermedial Confrontation – free topic
Studio of Photography I – free topic 

Studio of Glass – 1st year – Cup, remaining years - Portrait
Studio of Ceramics and Porcelain – 1st year – Vase, 2nd year Animal - ceramic sculptures of animals in life size, remaining years – Manifest – written version of their personal manifest // examination: expansion of personal manifest in material 

Studio K.O.V. – jewelry on the theme "Freedom" and design of an award for the Confederation of Industry and Transport of the Czech Republic
Studio of Fashion Design – Elastic Fantastic - clothing collection using knitted fabrics - ELASTICITY (flexibility, adaptability, elasticity) - ability to change and adapt in a rapidly changing society
Studio of Clothing and Footwear Design – 1st year – White project – Geometry in architecture, MALAI – collaboration with an Indian manufacturer processing ecological materials from coconut // examination: Report – knitted clothing collections developed in collaboration with the Studio of Graphic Design and Visual Communication in collaboration with NOVIA FASHION
Studio of Textile Creation – Confrontation between the Studio of Textile Creation UMPRUM and the Studio of Textile Design at VŠVU in Bratislava. The common theme is the 100 years of Bauhaus / projections and its mirroring in collaboration with the industry.
Studio of Illustration and Graphics – Author books; Compilation of printing plates (drawn from the archive of the printing workshop); illustrations for Vabank; Wochenblatt - the outcome of a workshop with Martin Amstutz; printing poster (collective work of students), newspaper illustrations – collaboration with the Studio of Graphic Design and Visual Communication
Studio of Typeface Creation and Typography – BISTRO POP UP – project in collaboration with the Studio of Furniture and Interior Design // examination: Jan Solpera 80 – homage to the anniversary of a significant typographer and educator
Studio of Graphic Design and Visual Communication – Deník N – newspaper – in collaboration with the Studio of Illustration and Graphics, Magazine I’m Riding for Škoda Auto, designs for sweaters and knits in collaboration with the Studio of Clothing and Footwear Design,
Studio of Film and Television Graphics – directing books - in collaboration with screenwriting students from FAMU - processing short stories on a given theme // examination: trailers for processed stories as part of a semester assignment
Studio of Graphic Design and New Media – Individual projects: Missing studies, a tool for themed communication between schools, Mist or Clouded in Graphic Design, a manual full of traps of each step of a graphic designer's work, or Gamification Design, Memex/Exocortex, Selfdesign or web online psychotherapy and many others.
Studio of Photography II – exhibition 80’ freedom, currently at GASK and its documentation // examination: Hair as a symbol

Visiting Artist Studio – Critical possibilities of painting. The history and present of painting as a medium that can comment on social phenomena without resigning formal qualities and emotional effects.

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